The experience of fandom, especially in the age of the internet, is one of binge reading: most new fans, upon discovering fanfic, gobble it down. The first story you read is usually an eyebrow raiser; shocking, maybe a bit embarrassing. âWhat is this craziness? Do people really do this? I donât think I like it. Are they all like this? Let me just look at one more âŚâ And then the next thing you know, itâs four in the morning, itâs three days later, itâs ten years on. You are at your friendâs house, and the floor around you is covered with zines. You are on the internet, and you havenât showered in days. Your browser history is a dreadful embarrassment. Youâve read roughly forty-five thousand stories, some of them amazing, many of them terrible, and you now have all sorts of opinions about tropes and genres. You have developed a particular taste in fanworks. You really like femslash, or hurt/comfort, or cavefic, or long, plotty gen. But I guarantee you this: no matter what you like, and no matter how much there is of itâthere isnât enough of it.Â
And so some readers (and some of you) will start to write. Youâll write the thing you want to read, because how hard can it be? You can do better than that story you read last night. And that other story you read was okayâexcept, you know what would have been really good? You know what would have been great? This. This is gonna be great.
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